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New Yosemite Speed Record for the Triple

Two climbers have set a new time for the Yosemite Triple Crown speed record

This week, Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill climbed the Triple in 17 hours and 55 minutes. The objective is a link-up of routes on El Capitan, Half Dome and Mount Watkins.

In 2018, Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds had climbed the Triple in 18 hours and 45 minutes – read about it here. We had previously made a mistake by crediting Alex Honnold with the previous record, but his time was 18 hours and 55 minutes.

Honnold became the first climber to solo the Yosemite Triple Crown in 2012 at the age of 26. He had previously climbed it with Tommy Caldwell, they’re still the only team to free every pitch of the link-up in a day. Honnold estimated that he had free-soloed about 95 per cent of the terrain during his speed record. “Climbing through the night, you’re always more tired than you should be because of the time and being by yourself, it’s weird,” he said. “I was climbing in a hybrid style where I had to keep switching back and forth between using a rope and not.”

To our knowledge, Wanish and Vaill are the ninth team to complete the Triple, with the last being Miles Fullman and Tyler Karow in 2023 in under 24 hours. In 2022, it was done by Danford Jooste and Nick Ehman climbed it in 21 hours and 35 minutes.

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